Teaching Globalization: Crossing Borders / Crossing Disciplines

All Day

on Saturday, June 22, 2013

Contact Name:

Anita Cook

This one-day conference provides a forum for presentations and discussions on issues faced by educators in all disciplines as they address changing perspectives brought about by globalization. The conference will include sessions on pedagogical practices, global film and music, issues of identity/psychology, and global actions/global relations.
Check out our website for the conference:
http://www.bu.edu/cgs/citl/interdisciplinary-conferences/

Call for Nominations for 2016 Metcalf and United Methodist Teaching Awards

The Office of the Provost welcomes faculty members, staff, students, and alumni to submit nominations for the 2016 Metcalf Cup and Prize and Metcalf Awards for Excellence in Teaching, as well as the 2016 United Methodist Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award.

Nominations for both awards are due Friday, October 2, 2015.

Please submit all nominations for the Metcalf Awards and the United Methodist Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award to the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs at apundergrad@bu.edu.

Blue Ribbon Panel Hears How to Respond to Biological and Chemical Threats

Dr. Len Singer, Medical Director of the Healthcare Emergency Management graduate program at Boston University Medical School, contends "that the common denominator to all disasters is human casualties, and, inasmuch, no other critical infrastructure and key resource sector resource will be at the epicenter of our readiness capacity. We can have all the best wishes in the world and all the best plans in the world,” he said, “but unless we have buy-in by the proper stakeholders” – hospital and health care system leadership – “we are in no better shape that we were pre-9/11.”

Featured Exercise

Operation Mercy Lift

A joint operation of the Massachusetts Army National Guard, Sandwich and Dennis Fire Departments, Massachusetts Department of Public Health and Boston University Healthcare Emergency Management. More...